Covid inquiry: We felt like second class citizens over firebreak – health minister

The inquiry is shown notes from Morgan, in which she writes “is Matt Hancock hopeless?”.

Another entry reads: “Prime Minister – Chaos”.

She is then asked whether the remarks jotted down were linked to text messages published in June 2021 by former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings, in which then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson criticised the approach from those in Cabinet during the pandemic.

“I’m guessing it must have been and it would have made sense in terms of the timing,” Morgan replies.

She adds that those notes would be “more political in nature”, something she would show to her political group – and the notes aided her in remembering what was happening at the time.

Another
entry relates a meeting, when Morgan was not invited and learnt of
“English moves” via the media, in what she describes as a “wholly unsatisfactory situation.”

She
tells the inquiry Welsh ministers were being invited to meetings very late and being given information
“sometimes minutes before.”

Morgan adds she was concerned in one meeting
that she was a
“lone voice” and the majority would come out against the public health
position when it came to tourism.